946 Software Tester jobs in the United Kingdom

• Design and execute test cases based on user stories and acceptance criteria
• Document and report bugs, helping to troubleshoot issues with developers
• Contribute to functional, regression, and exploratory testing activities
• Support software releases by validating features and identifying risks early
• Assist in reviewing requirements and identifying test scenarios
• Maintain clear and detailed test documentation

• Requirements to be considered for the Trainee Software Tester:
• A degree in Computer Science, IT, Software Engineering or a related field
• Experience or Knowledge of software testing or QA role (including placements)
• Understanding of testing principles and software development lifecycles
• Strong attention to detail with a structured and analytical approach
• Ability to work collaboratively in Agile or fast-paced delivery environment
• Experience running manual tests across desktop or web applications
• Exposure to SQL or basic database validation
• Awareness of automation tools such as Selenium or Playwright
• A proactive approach to learning and improving testing practices

The Bristol Port Company have exciting opportunities for Senior Software Tester to join their team.

Location: Avonmouth, Bristol, BS11 9DQ

Salary: £50,000 to £5,000 per annum

Job Type: Full Time, Permanent

About Us:

As one of the UK’s major ports, The Bristol Port Company provides the full range of warehousing, logistics and distribution services. Established in 1991, the Port now employs over 600 people and has invested over £60 million in infrastructure, equipment and its workforce. Bristol Port is a key national asset and a major economic driver for the South West region; the Company and businesses on the Port Estate contribute more than £ billion to UK GDP.

Senior Software Tester – The Role:  

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Senior Software Tester to join our in-house development team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring the quality of our software products through meticulous testing, test automation, and collaboration with Developers and Product Owners. This role requires a strong understanding of testing methodologies, excellent analytical skills, and the ability to write and maintain automated test scripts. 

Senior Software Tester - Responsibilities:

- Develop and execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts based on requirements and specifications

- Perform various testing types (e.g., functional, regression, performance, usability, security) as needed

- Identify, document, and track software defects using a bug tracking system

- Analyse test results and provide clear and concise reports

- Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts using appropriate tools and frameworks (e.g., Selenium, JavaScript)

- Implement and maintain a robust test automation framework

- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipeline

- Work closely with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and provide feedback

- Participate in Agile ceremonies (e.g., sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives)

Senior Software Tester - You:  

- Proven experience in software testing (min 2+ years)

- Strong test scripting skills

- Experience with test automation tools and frameworks (e.g. Selenium)

- Solid understanding of software testing methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall)

- Experience with bug tracking systems (e.g., DevOps, ClickUp)

- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

- Strong communication and collaboration skills

Please be aware, due to the nature of the role, only candidates eligible to both live and work in the UK will be considered for the role. No sponsorship or relocation packages will be offered for this role.

To submit your CV for this exciting Senior Software Tester opportunity, please click ‘Apply’ now!

Junior Software Tester

Financial Services Business

Up to 30,000

Norwich, UK Hybrid Working Role

We are recruiting for a Junior Tester on behalf of a Leading Norwich based Company who provide valuable services to the Financial Services industry.

This is a brand-new role that would be perfect for a manual tester to advance their career.

In this role you will be responsible for manually testing software and delivering high quality solutions. You will contribute to new projects and collaborate with the software development team and other stakeholders to ensure that product results align with expectations.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Execute manual test cases to ensure products are offered at a high standard
• Evaluate product features against specifications
• Document test phases and record any defects and bugs
• Carry out pre-release, post deployment and regression testing
• Maintain high quality throughout the software development lifecycle

In exchange for your commitment and hard work you can expect a generous starting salary and opportunities to grow with the company in the future.

This role is based in Norwich and requires on site working so applicants would ideally live nearby or be prepared to travel there on a weekly basis.

If this vacancy sounds like its for you then please contact Ollie at Atkinson Moss today.

Software Engineer - Embedded Systems

Salary: 40,800-50,000 depending on experience

Benefits: Bonus scheme, private healthcare, enhanced leave, pension, flexible working, and more

A leading product development consultancy is seeking a skilled Software Engineer to join its multidisciplinary team. Specialising in medical and consumer health innovation, the company operates globally with design and manufacturing partners across Europe, the USA, and Asia.

About the Role:
You'll work on cutting-edge embedded systems projects, contributing across the software stack. This is a full-time role based in central Bristol, with flexible hybrid working and occasional travel to client sites.

Key Requirements:

• Professional experience in embedded software development (C/C++)
• Familiarity with STM32, CubeMX, and communication protocols (I2C, UART, SPI, BLE)
• Strong communication and documentation skills
• Ability to collaborate across teams and present confidently to clients

Desirable:

• Experience in medical device development and secure coding standards
• Knowledge of higher-level languages (Python, JavaScript, etc.)
• Exposure to embedded OS (FreeRTOS, Zephyr) and GUI frameworks

If this sounds of interest, then please apply today!

Quality Specialist - Electronics Sector
Location: Milton Keynes (Hybrid)
Type: Full-Time
Salary: Dependent on Experience

A well-established provider of technical material solutions is seeking a Quality Specialist to join their team. This hybrid role offers flexibility with some work-from-home options and the opportunity to work on innovative projects across automotive, medical, and lighting sectors.

Role Overview

As a Quality Specialist, you will:

• Conduct quality assessments and ensure compliance with industry standards.
• Monitor and improve quality control processes.
• Collaborate across departments to maintain high standards and support staff development.
• Provide feedback and implement improvements to enhance overall performance.

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience in quality control and compliance.
• Strong communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and within a team.
• Familiarity with training software and quality management tools.
• Background in electronics or lighting industries is a plus.
• Bachelor's degree in Quality Management, Business Administration, Education, or a related field.
• Knowledge of ISO 9001, IATF 16949, PPAPs, and IMDS is advantageous.

Job Description:

We are currently recruiting on behalf of our client for the position of Quality Assurance Operative to join their Packing Centre Based in Chippenham. As a Quality Assurance Operative, you will play a vital role in supporting the quality improvement and "right-first-time" agenda, ensuring products are legally manufactured and compliant with customer specifications. Reporting to the Quality Assurance Manager, you will foster a culture of quality and safety awareness throughout the production process to uphold product excellence.

About the Client:

Our client is a leading UK-based food manufacturing company with a strong focus on producing high-quality, fresh food products. With a commitment to sustainability, innovation, and the highest food safety standards, they serve major retailers and the foodservice industry across the UK. Their dedication to quality is reflected in their consistent efforts to deliver safe, compliant, and customer-focused products every day.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Maintain elements of the quality system to meet the requirements of company practices, codes of practice, and customer protocols.
• Ensure the accuracy and compliance of all component specifications, product specifications, and the QA and HACCP Manual.
• Conduct checks of products as outlined in the QA manual.
• Review, check, and sign off records.
• Assist with investigating complaints and quality failures, recommending corrective actions and preventative measures.
• Perform in-depth checks of packing materials and finished products when requested by the QA team and produce detailed reports.
• Audit sections of the Quality Management System to ensure compliance, reporting any non-conformances.

Person Specification:

• Ability to demonstrate company values: Respect, Aspire, Courage, One Team & Diversity.
• Strong planning and organisational skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Clear and effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to work well within a team.

Qualifications / Experience:

• Previous experience working within Quality Assurance, ideally in food manufacturing.
• Understanding of HACCP.
• Food Safety Level 2 qualification (desirable).

Pay rate / Hours

• Salary: 29,542
• Working Hours: 4 on 4 off, 6am to 6pm

About SourceCo:
Established in September 2018, SourceCo Recruitment has earned a reputation for excellence in recruitment services across the Midlands. We specialize in connecting talented candidates with leading employers in Manufacturing, Logistics, and Commercial sectors. Our streamlined registration process, dedicated candidate management team, and extensive employer network make SourceCo the preferred choice for temporary, contract, and permanent roles.

Ready to seize exciting opportunities? Contact SourceCo today for more information!

INDSCA

Food Microbiologist/ Quality Assurance

Join our expert team at Campden BRI, delivering high-impact consultancy services to clients across the food industry. This role blends technical excellence with client-facing delivery, offering a dynamic mix of research, training, and strategic support.

We're looking for a Food Microbiologist with hands-on experience in food manufacturing, ideally within a Quality Assurance or Hygiene function. This is a dynamic opportunity for someone passionate about food safety and eager to expand their expertise across multiple disciplines.

In this role, you'll embark on a structured learning and development pathway designed to evolve your capabilities into a Safety, Quality, and Hygiene Specialist. You'll play a vital role in supporting our team to deliver and enhance factory hygiene services through both consultancy, technical support and the delivery of training and workshops.

Position

• Conducting assessments and providing guidance on Cleaning Systems
• Evaluating and improving personnel hygiene practices
• Advising on hygienic design of equipment and facilities
• Reviewing and optimizing building and air handling systems for contamination control
• Designing environmental sampling programs
• Validating cleaning and disinfection protocols to ensure regulatory compliance and conformity to commercial standards
• Delivering training sessions to upskill factory teams on hygiene best practices
• Troubleshooting hygiene-related issues and offering actionable solutions

Requirements

• A collaborative environment where your scientific insight drives real-world impact
• Access to cutting-edge knowledge across a number of disciplines
• Opportunities to work across diverse product categories and manufacturing setups
• Mentorship from industry-leading experts in food safety and hygiene
• Career progression into consultancy, auditing, or technical leadership roles

Benefits

• Hybrid working
• Reward platform with employee discounts and rewards
• 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays
• Buy and sell holiday scheme
• A generous work save pension scheme, with employee contributions matched by the company up to 10%
• Culture focus around work/life balance (early finish Fridays)
• Subsidised onsite restaurant
• £30,000-£45,000 pa dependent on experience

Click 'apply now' or send your CV to

We’re building the future of accessibility – come and join our mission of achieving accessibility for all.

Recite Me is the leading provider of cloud accessibility and digital inclusion software. A true North-East SaaS success story, our flagship accessibility toolbar is provided by thousands of organizations globally to support millions of users online.

The long line of amazing inclusive organsations includes Coca-Cola, KFC, Odeon, VW, NHS, and British Gas. Over the past 12 months, we have seen our toolbar used over 20 million times to support people online around the world.

We’re passionate about our cause and our products. As we move from scale-up to a global market leader, we need help to achieve our ambitious plans. Therefore, we are looking for a manual QA-Tester to work alongside the Head of Testing to help identify both hidden and visible defects in software and a quality and bug free product.

Recite Me is seeking a Software QA Tester to assess software quality through quality testing. This role will support the QA Head of Testing in testing activities, and the candidate should be ready to hit the ground running. You will be involved in manual testing primarily, pre-release and post release and writing test criteria to help guide our product feature specifications pre-code. We will look to you to write tests and guidelines for products in our portfolio, as well as giving feedback on potential UX and usability improvements or considerations.

You will lead manual testing efforts and provide valuable insights to ensure product quality. While manual testing will be your primary focus, you may also have the opportunity to work on our automation initiatives by contributing to test cases and assisting in automation planning

You will also keep on top of a portfolio of rapidly evolving products at different stages of maturity,

and providing feedback to help continuous improvement across the whole development process.

Requirements

1.    Participate in the planning, design, and execution of manual test cases across web and mobile

2.    Work closely with the Head of Testing to support in preparing the test plans, creating & executing the test cases, monitoring bugs, re-testing bug fixes.

3.    Make sure User Stories have well-documented User Acceptance Criteria by working    alongside product owner/designers whenever required.

4.    Plan and coordinate all cycles of testing, including functional-level system tests, business    scenario-based testing, to ensure proper test coverage while mitigating redundancy where possible.

5.    Strong attention to detail and ability to prioritize tasks effectively.

6.    Good knowledge of the test process (Analysing the requirements, writing the UACs, test cases, get test cases reviewed by Dev lead).

7.    Experience in logging test cases/defects into Jira using Zephyr.

8.    Ready to take up new challenges that may arise.

9.    Good Analytical skills.

10.   Intermediate level of proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook, Word & PowerPoint).

11.   Execute all levels of testing (Sanity/Regression/Functional/Exploratory Testing).

12.   Participate in release meetings, post-live testing and quality signoffs.

13.   Validate application behavior against business requirements and acceptance criteria

The successful candidate will be extremely creative, we will look to you to write tests and guidelines for products in our portfolio, as well as giving feedback on potential UX and usability improvements or considerations. You will keep on top of a portfolio of rapidly evolving products at different stages of maturity and providing feedback to help continuous improvement across the whole development process by following different testing process in both Waterfall and Agile methodology.

In this role, you’ll take ownership of manual testing, help shape our QA processes, and may contribute to building test automation in a supportive capacity. You’ll work closely with developers, product managers, and designers to ensure every release meets the highest quality standards.

●    Min 4 years of experience in Quality Assurance, with a strong focus on manual testing in writing the UAC’s and Test Cases

●    Ability to create different scenarios related to specific functionality.

●    Min 2 to 3 years of experience in JIRA and dashboards preparation.

●    4+ years of experience in software testing of web and mobile applications.

●    Great at identifying bugs at the initial stage of testing.

●    Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in cross-functional teams

●    Positive collaborative attitude

●    Very good experience in writing bug reports

●    Independent attitude (you do not require, or like, micro-management)

●    Hungry to make Recite Me THE bug free product

●    ISTQB Qualified in Software Testing-Foundation Level

●    Basic understanding of test automation frameworks & Experience in writing or maintaining automated scripts

●    Manual testing process: 4 years minimum (Required)

●    Waterfall and Agile Method: 2 years (Required)

●    Any Bachelor's degree

Benefits

●    Hybrid working (3 days office/2 days home)

●    Flexible start time

●    2-week workcation each year

●    On-site parking

●    Great culture & working environment – awesome views of Newcastle Quayside

●    25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

●    Pension

●    Death in Service

●    Private healthcare plan

●    Genuine Meritocracy

●    Fun social scene

Opus People Solutions on behalf of our client in the East Midlands have an exciting opportunity for an Auditor to join their team.

Rate of Pay: 40-45 per hour
Working Arrangements: Hybrid, 2 days a week in the office
Length of Assignment: Minimum 6 months.

Provide a range of services for children. These include early help, safeguarding and support for children in need and children looked after. We need a consistent, rigorous understanding of the quality and effectiveness of the help we provide these vulnerable children.

Auditors will play a key role in evaluating practice, analysing audit findings, identifying areas for improvement, recommending improvement options and reporting to senior leaders. They will also undertake coaching, make presentations and contribute to training events.

Responsibilities:

• Undertake in-depth case audits, working alongside social workers and team managers to evaluate the quality and impact of practice in improving children's lives.
• Obtain and evaluate the views of children, families and professional partners about the quality and impact of practice.
• Undertake extensive thematic case sampling to understand and report on the quality specified elements of practice.
• Go beyond auditing by using the audit process to coach social workers and managers in good practice, helping them build on existing strengths and eliminate weaknesses.
• Train and coach managers in effective auditing.
• Undertake audits of supervision at child level and practitioner level.
• Moderate case audit and case sampling completed by others so we can be confident that evaluations and judgements are are evidence-based with a consistent understanding of what good looks like.
• Analyse and collate audit findings across CFN so they can be reported routinely to senior leaders to inform the full range of practice improvement and workforce development activities.
• Present audit findings and lessons from audit to groups of practitioners, managers and senior leaders as required.

Experience:

• Qualified Social Worker
• Social Work England Registered
• Team Manager Experience
• 3 Years post qualifying experience

If you thrive to make a difference and have 3 years Social worker experience and this is the role for you, then we would love to hear from you.